Recapitulation of Human Retinal Development from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Generates Transplantable Populations of Cone Photoreceptors

Stem Cell Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 820-837

  Gonzalez Cordero, Anai ^a   Kruczek, Kamil ^a   Naeem, Arifa ^a   Fernando, Milan ^a   Kloc, Magdalena ^a   Ribeiro, Joana ^a   Goh, Debbie ^a   Duran, Yanai ^a   Blackford, Samuel J I ^a   Abelleira Hervas, Laura ^a   Sampson, Robert D ^a   Shum, Ian O ^a   Branch, Matthew J ^a   Gardner, Peter J ^a   Sowden, Jane C ^b   Bainbridge, James W B ^a   Smith, Alexander J ^a   West, Emma L ^a   Pearson, Rachael A ^a   Ali, Robin R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cone photoreceptors; differentiation; photoreceptor; retina and transplantation; stem cells

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; CRALBP; M OPSIN; NUCLEI I; ONECUT 1; OPSIN; PERIPHERIN; PERIPHERIN 2; RECOVERIN; RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; RIBEYE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ONECUT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AIPL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CONNECTING CILIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA ROD; RETINAL ROD OUTER SEGMENT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85028036466     PISSN: 22136711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.07.022     Document Type: Article

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